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Film
Screening: The Sound of Friendship: Warm Wavelengths in a Cold, Cold War
A film by
Anandita Bajpai (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
The documentary "The Sound of Friendship" tells the story
of the Hindi programme of GDR’s international broadcasting station Radio
Berlin International (RBI). The programme was aired from the Funkhaus in Berlin from 1967 to 1990. The film takes
viewers from locales in Berlin to Madhepura,
Bihar in India where a Listeners’ Club called the ‘Lenin Club’ was
active. In times of the Cold War, crossborder
friendships developed between the listeners in India and the journalists
in Germany. How are these connections remembered today, more than 30
years after the station was shut down?
The screening will be followed by an open discussion with the film maker
and some protagonists of the film.
The event
will take place on Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 6 pm in Studio 2 at the
Funkhaus Berlin (Nalepastraße
18, 12459 Berlin). Please register in advance at registration@zmo.de,
seats are limited. Admission is free, the 3G-rule will be applied.
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13 October
2021, 5:30 pm, virtual event
The Political Marketplace and Mass
Displacement: Somalia in the Red Sea Arena
Lecture by Nisar Majid (London
School of Economics) as part of the Red Sea Lecture Series
The Horn of Africa has a long
history of famine and humanitarian crisis. These catastrophic outcomes
reflect structural poverty and endemic political volatility and conflict,
as well as the influence of more proximate factors, such as extreme
climatic variability. These factors are also associated with high-levels
of rural-urban migration and forced displacement in an often
traditionally highly mobile population. Migration, forced or not, has
historically occurred within the Red Sea region as an inter-connected
arena. Recent years have seen renewed engagement of Gulf States in the
Horn, including in food security and maritime security. These investments
(by Gulf states) are part of a wider regional political marketplace, in
which state competition in the Gulf is playing out in the Horn. This
presentation focuses on Somalia and examines how a political marketplace
analysis can help to explain the persistence of structural poverty, and
long-term displacement.
Please register
here: https://tinyurl.com/5xswd368
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20 October
2021, 5:30 pm, virtual event
Stigmatization, Stereotyping and
the Struggle to Belong: Yemenis of African Descent in Yemen
Lecture by Marina
de Regt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) as part of the Red Sea Lecture Series
In this presentation Marina de Regt will share the preliminary findings of
a research project about so-called “Muwalladin”
(people of mixed descent) in Yemen, carried out under the auspices of the
Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies with
funding of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The study focuses
specifically on Yemenis of mixed Yemeni-African descent. Since the start
of the civil war in Yemen, stigmatization and discrimination on the basis
of one’s family background has increased and so have racist practices
against people of African descent. What are the main social, economic and
security challenges that Muwalladin are facing
since the outbreak of the war? How are Muwalladin
navigating their identities in war-torn Yemen? And which role do gender
and generation play?
Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/5xswd368
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25 October
2021, 5 pm, hybrid event
The Politics of the Female Body in
Contemporary Turkey – Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality
Book presentation by Hilal Alkan
(Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), Ayþe Dayý
(Orca Dreams: Platform for Mindful Living), Sezin
Topçu (French National Research Center), Betül Yarar (Universität Bremen) and Esra
Sarýoðlu (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
In Turkey, during the last decade,
women's central role in reproductive and domestic work has been
reactionarily reaffirmed by the policies of the Justice and Development
Party. Many such shifts in family policies and regulations about
reproductive rights have created intense debate in the public sphere and
women developed various responses to them. Taking Turkey as the case
study, this book examines the various ways neoliberal modes of governing
women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures.
To participate via zoom, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/52bf36np
If you would like to participate in person at ZMO, please contact
Hilal.Alkan.Zeybek@zmo.de.
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26 October
2021, 7 pm, virtual event
A History of Jeddah – The Gate to
Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Book presentation by Ulrike
Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient), organised by the German
Arab Friendship Association (DAFG) in cooperation with ZMO
Known as the 'Gate to Mecca' or
'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling
to Mecca and Medina and a station for international trade routes between
the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean for centuries. In cooperation with
DAFG board member Wolf R. Schwippert, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag presents her critically acclaimed
biography of the city under the title A
History of Jeddah – The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century (Cambridge University Press 2020). Seen from the
perspective of its diverse population, the study traces the city's urban
history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its
present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment
of the Arabian Peninsula.
Please register
here: https://tinyurl.com/4c38p3sb
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27 October
2021, 5:30 pm, virtual event
The Maritime Edge: Marine
Harvests, Subsistence and Mobility in the Premodern Red Sea
Lecture by Roxani
Margariti (Emory University) as part of the Red Sea Lecture Series
Ancient accounts of the Red Sea
include the figure of the ichthyofagi, the
“fish-eaters” inhabiting the Sea’s shores and islands. This vaguely
defined people are often (though not always) portrayed as primitive and
impoverished both culturally and materially, a correlate of the alterity
assigned to them. The construct in its variations across Greek and Roman
sources has received a lot of scholarly attention and is to be compared
and contrasted with descriptions of maritime harvesters in the region by
medieval authors. These portrayals also raise a host of questions about
the realities of subsistence and the dynamics of resource exploitation
and mobility in this generally arid and eminently maritime region in
pre-modern times. What was the nature, extent and impact of exploitation
of marine resources in the southern Red Sea? How long-lived and
continuous were practices such as fishing, pearl-diving, and the
harvesting of other luxury marine goods (ambergris, tortoiseshell) and
what shifted in the geographies of exploitation of such resources through
time? What can we learn from instances of competition and conflict over
maritime space and its potential? What drove mobility and circulation
across Red Sea shores and islands before modernity?
Please register
here: https://tinyurl.com/5xswd368
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28 October
2021, 5 pm, virtual event
Tribality, Property and the Long
Making of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
Lecture by Bodhisattva Kar
(University of Cape Town) as part of the ZMO Colloquium Political Economies of
Original Inhabitation
Styled as a set of protective
mechanisms for the customary rights of certain “tribes” in the northeastern frontier, the Sixth Schedule of the
Indian Constitution has evolved into a site of several social
contestations and a new source of unequal subcitizenship
in the region. In this paper, I examine in detail the making of the Sixth
Schedule on the eve of Indian independence in the shadow of the
century-long history of informal business practices in the frontier. In a
previous publication, I traced the emergence of a peculiar culture of
contracts and leases in the region over the nineteenth century that
shaped a particular structure of claim-making in the name of a tribe.
This paper investigates the complexities that arose as this structure
entered into a productive play with the logic of representative
government introduced piecemeal in the area since the 1920s. In exploring
the relationship between ethnicization of constituencies and demands of extractivism in the last three decades of the Raj, I
try to understand the ways in which the protocols of “protection” came to
redefine the meanings and mechanisms of tribal property.
Photo: UCT
Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/jehbm2tm
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Call
for Applications
Visiting Research
Fellowships 2022
ZMO is inviting applications for
Visiting Research Fellowships of one or two months for the calendar year of
2022.
Deadline: 31 October 2021
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Forum: Zur Rolle
der Nation in der Geschichtsschreibung des 21. Jahrhunderts
Die letzten Jahre sahen das Wiederaufleben der Debatte um
die Rolle der Nation in der Geschichtsschreibung. Ein H-Soz-Kult Diskussionsforum will daher der Frage
nachgehen, wie Nation in den Geschichtswissenschaften im 21. Jahrhundert
im internationalen Vergleich thematisiert wird, ob das Thema (wieder) an
Bedeutung gewonnen hat und welche Rolle die Nation in öffentlichen und (geschichts)politischen Diskursen spielt. In dem von
Maria Framke (Universität Erfurt) und Andreas Weiß
(Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg) herausgegebenen Diskussionsforum
sind u.a. Beiträge der ZMO-Alumni Peter Wien und Sophie Wagenhofer zu
finden.
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DAVO Dissertationspreis 2021 for Besnik
Sinani
Congratulations to Dr. Besnik Sinani who received the DAVO Dissertationspreis for his dissertation on Sufism in
Saudi Arabia. Besnik is currently an associated research fellow at ZMO,
with a Project titled "Post-Salafism: The Contestation of
Contemporary Saudi Salafism".
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»Die Debatte auf breitere Schultern stellen«
Der Sammelband Koloniale
Spuren in den Archiven der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft vereint
Beiträge aus elf Leibniz-Forschungseinrichtungen. Das Leibniz Magazin hat
mit Heinz Peter Brogiato vom Leibniz-Institut
für Länderkunde, der den Band gemeinsam mit Matthias Röschner
vom Deutschen Museum herausgegeben hat, über Sinn und Zweck des Buchs,
die aktuelle Debatte zur Kolonialgeschichte und die Verantwortung des
Historikers in der Gesellschaft gesprochen.
Das Magazin stellt außerdem ausgewählte Beiträge des Buches vor. In
dem Band ist auch ein Beitrag aus dem ZMO zu finden. Silke Nagel und
Alisher Karabaev schreiben über Kolonialismus und nationaler
Befreiungskampf im Nachlass und Lebensweg des Afrikaforschers Peter
Sebald.
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Ten Lessons from the
Moroccan Elections
ZMO Affiliate Mohammed Hashas
analyses the Moroccan elections held on 8 September. The articles was
published on the blog of Reset
Dialogues on Civilizations.
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